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“I asked them to be like Frank O’Hara, noticing colors and sounds and people we encountered.”
“How, amidst the poetic structure and planning they were used to, could it not change their idea of what poetry was?”
“Her work appears in Lit Hub, The Brooklyn Rail, The Drift, The Harvard Review , and elsewhere.”
“You can hear him in the humor that peppers literary magazines, and each literary pop culture reference.”
“O’Hara called this style “I do this, I do that” poems.”
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“It was unlike anything my students had read before.”
“There’s no pretension to his work: just a poet, seeing the world, telling you about it.”
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“writing these poems!”
“As Sophia Stewart writes in The LA Review of Books : Frank O’Hara is everywhere, in TV and books and articles and epigraphs.”
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“Ada Calhoun’s, in her much-discussed memoir Also a Poet , uses O’Hara as the peg that an exploration of her father/daughter relationship hangs on.”
“I had taught them what Frank O’Hara had first taught me: poetry is not, as some may think, an arduous exercise in word choice and simile.”
“A poem is happening to students, poets, teachers, everyone every hour, every minute.”
“Heading out in more of a blob than a single-file line, I would gather the hordes of seventh graders out in the hallway, pens in hand, for a Poetry Walk.”
“In the 100 years since his birth, and 60 since his death, generations of writers have found inspiration in his casual profundity.”
“The glistening torsos of the construction workers are all too easy to write off as sweaty.”
“Instead, it’s a way of looking, of noticing details we might have otherwise overlooked.”
“As he wrote in Autobiographia Literaria : And here I am, the center of all beauty!”
“The So-Called Second New York School (following behind O’Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch) spent their early days studying this like they were cheating on a test.”